Instances Azure VM Standard_FX8-2mds_v2 Standard_FX8-2mds_v2
Standard_FX8-2mds_v2 is an Azure VM size with 2 vCPUs, 168 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids)). In East US it costs $1.094 per hour on demand ($798.62 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.6236 per hour, 43% less. Spot capacity is about $0.2398 per hour. It is sold in 57 regions.
USD per hour, Linux. Reserved prices are no upfront, standard. Cheapest on-demand first.
Region On-demand Spot 1-yr reserved 3-yr reserved 1-yr savings plan 3-yr savings plan East US eastus $1.094 $0.2398 $0.6236 $0.2954 $0.7549 $0.3829 East US 2 eastus2 $1.094 $0.2022 $0.6236 $0.2954 $0.7549 $0.3829 West US 2 westus2 $1.094 $0.2022 $0.6239 $0.2955 $0.7549 $0.3829 West US 3 westus3 $1.094 $0.2022 $0.6236 $0.2954 $0.7549 $0.3829 Central India centralindia $1.129 $0.2086 $0.6436 $0.3049 $0.779 $0.3952 Canada Central canadacentral $1.204 $0.2225 $0.6862 $0.325 $0.8308 $0.4214 Mexico Central mexicocentral $1.204 $0.2408 $0.6912 $0.336 $0.8306 $0.4213 Central US centralus $1.236 $0.2282 $0.6236 $0.2954 $0.754 $0.3819 Sweden Central swedencentral $1.248 $0.2306 $0.7114 $0.337 $0.8611 $0.4368 Indonesia Central indonesiacentral $1.28 $0.2365 $0.7553 $0.4865 $0.8704 $0.5888 Malaysia West malaysiawest $1.28 $0.256 $0.7352 $0.3574 $0.8831 $0.4479 North Central US northcentralus $1.313 $0.2626 $0.754 $0.3666 $0.9058 $0.4594 North Europe northeurope $1.313 $0.2426 $0.7486 $0.3546 $0.906 $0.4596 South Central US southcentralus $1.313 $0.2426 $0.7484 $0.3545 $0.9979 $0.7222 Spain Central spaincentral $1.313 $0.2426 $0.7486 $0.3546 $0.906 $0.4596 West Central US westcentralus $1.313 $0.2426 $0.7484 $0.3545 $0.9979 $0.7222 UK West ukwest $1.324 $0.2447 $0.7547 $0.3575 $1.006 $0.7282 Qatar Central qatarcentral $1.346 $0.2487 $0.7675 $0.3635 $0.9287 $0.4711 UAE North uaenorth $1.346 $0.2487 $0.7675 $0.3635 $0.9287 $0.4711 US Gov Arizona usgovarizona $1.368 $0.2528 $0.7796 $0.3693 – – US Gov Texas usgovtexas $1.368 $0.2528 $0.7796 $0.3693 – – US Gov Virginia usgovvirginia $1.368 $0.2528 $0.7796 $0.3693 – – Canada East canadaeast $1.379 $0.2758 $0.7918 $0.3849 $0.9514 $0.4825 France Central francecentral $1.379 $0.2548 $0.7861 $0.3723 $0.9515 $0.4827 UK South uksouth $1.379 $0.2548 $0.7861 $0.3723 $0.9515 $0.4827 Australia Southeast australiasoutheast $1.422 $0.2628 $0.8107 $0.3841 $1.081 $0.7821 Italy North italynorth $1.422 $0.2844 $0.8169 $0.3971 $0.981 $0.4976 Poland Central polandcentral $1.422 $0.2844 $0.8169 $0.3971 $0.981 $0.4976 West US westus $1.423 $0.263 $0.811 $0.3842 $0.9819 $0.4981 Korea South koreasouth $1.477 $0.2954 $0.8483 $0.4124 $1.019 $0.5168 Germany West Central germanywestcentral $1.532 $0.2831 $0.8734 $0.4137 $1.057 $0.5362 West Europe westeurope $1.532 $0.2831 $0.8734 $0.4137 $1.057 $0.5362 South India southindia $1.543 $0.2851 $0.8793 $0.4166 $1.173 $0.8487 South Africa North southafricanorth $1.563 $0.2888 $0.8909 $0.422 $1.079 $0.5471 Israel Central israelcentral $1.565 $0.313 $0.8985 $0.4368 $1.08 $0.5476 UAE Central uaecentral $1.565 $0.313 $0.8985 $0.4368 $1.08 $0.5476 Japan West japanwest $1.586 $0.3172 $0.9111 $0.443 $1.094 $0.5549 Australia East australiaeast $1.587 $0.2933 $0.9046 $0.4285 $1.095 $0.5555 Japan East japaneast $1.587 $0.2933 $0.9046 $0.4285 $1.095 $0.5555 Korea Central koreacentral $1.587 $0.2933 $0.9046 $0.4285 $1.095 $0.5555 Southeast Asia southeastasia $1.587 $0.2933 $0.9043 $0.4284 $1.095 $0.5555 Taiwan North taiwannorth $1.587 $0.2933 $0.9043 $0.4284 $1.095 $0.5555 Australia Central australiacentral $1.608 $0.3216 $0.9237 $0.449 $1.109 $0.5626 Australia Central 2 australiacentral2 $1.608 $0.3216 $0.9237 $0.449 $1.109 $0.5626 New Zealand North newzealandnorth $1.666 $0.3079 $0.9829 $0.5997 $1.133 $0.7164 Switzerland North switzerlandnorth $1.685 $0.3114 $0.9607 $0.4551 $1.163 $0.5898 East Asia eastasia $1.696 $0.3392 $0.974 $0.4735 $1.17 $0.5934 Norway East norwayeast $1.707 $0.3414 $0.9803 $0.4766 $1.178 $0.5973 West India westindia $1.707 $0.3414 $0.9803 $0.4766 $1.178 $0.5973 Sweden South swedensouth $1.849 $0.3698 $1.062 $0.5162 $1.276 $0.647 Germany North germanynorth $1.992 $0.3681 $1.135 $0.5378 $1.514 $1.096 France South francesouth $2.035 $0.407 $1.169 $0.5682 $1.404 $0.712 Norway West norwaywest $2.035 $0.407 $1.169 $0.5682 $1.404 $0.712 South Africa West southafricawest $2.035 $0.407 $1.169 $0.5682 $1.404 $0.712 Switzerland West switzerlandwest $2.035 $0.407 $1.169 $0.5682 $1.404 $0.712 Brazil South brazilsouth $2.134 $0.3944 $1.217 $0.5763 $1.472 $0.7469 Brazil Southeast brazilsoutheast $2.845 $0.569 $1.634 $0.7943 $1.963 $0.9955
Prices by operating system in East US Operating system On-demand /hr 1-yr reserved /hr 3-yr reserved /hr Linux $1.094 $0.6236 $0.2954 Windows $1.462 $0.9916 $0.6634
Compute Value vCPUs 2 Physical cores 1 Threads per core 2 Architecture x86_64 Processor Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids)
Memory Value Memory (GiB) 168
Networking Value Network 25 Gbps Accelerated networking Yes Max network interfaces 4
Storage Value Storage 440 GiB temp NVMe SSD Local NVMe 440 GiB Max data disks 24 Premium SSD Yes Max disk IOPS (uncached) 33,000 Max disk throughput (uncached) 1,090 MB/s Ephemeral OS disk Yes
Instance details Value Instance type Standard_FX8-2mds_v2 Family FXmdsv2 Category Compute optimized VM generations V2 Encryption at host Yes
Other Value Series fxmdsv2-series Specs source Azure Resource SKUs API
Prices updated 2026-11-12 from the Azure Retail Prices API. Compare all Azure VM sizes .